April 12, 2024
1902, William Henry Venable, TOM TAD
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BOCCRAEFT (An Old English word meaning "Literature") eBay StoreTom Tadby William Henry VenableNew York: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1902, first edition, illustrated, 287 pp., pictorial hardcover.Spotted covers, corners & spine ends rubbed, spine a little darkened, front hinge starting, previous owner's info & gift inscription on ffep."William Henry Venable, the son of William and Hannah (Baird) Venable, was born three miles southwest of Waynesville, Ohio (Warren Co.) on April 29, 1836. Friend William Venable was a Quaker and an abolitionist, a surveyor, a teacher and a farmer...He was versatile and eclectic in his interests. As a teenager he began writing for local newspapers and became an authority on the literary history of the Miami Valley...For a quarter of a century he taught at the Chickering Institute in Cincinnati. He became the principal and proprietor of this school in 1881. He was a popular guest speaker at Miami Valley College and other local colleges. Beginning in 1886 he spent three years writing and lecturing in cities and towns in Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, Kentucky, and West Virginia. He was famous for his humorous lecture, Thomas Tadmore, about the pathos of boy life. During the last decade of the 19th century he actively promoted a liberal reform of education as the chairman of the Department of English at both Hughes
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